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What's the health care crisis?
There aren't enough healthcare workers to meet the demand. Around 15% of Ontarians do not have a family doctor and use emergency rooms for their primary care. Emergency room wait times have become excessive with some hospitals reporting 20 hour wait times. Around 48% of nurses have reported they are considering switching careers, mostly citing excessive work hours and little pay to show for it. Ontario is the most populated province but spends the least on healthcare per capita.
Tried to find a new doctor lately or have a medical emergency? Good luck.
Is there a big backlog? I don't live in Ontario, just trying to learn about it
If you don't have a family doctor today you are going to wait months if not years to get one if you are in a busy area.
Hospitals are way understaffed, if you come in with a non-life threatening emergency (broken arm) you can expect to wait anywhere from 4 to 12 hours depending on how busy it is.
If you live in a non-busy area, expect to wait years, if not decades. I live in a smaller city in southern Ontario, and our wait list is getting longer every year. I've not had a doctor since 2018.
that it's in crisis. Took my GF to emergency last night in Newmarket to Southlake. It was standing room only. The system is overwhelmed.
Where I will not blame the government, these hospitals are not large enough for the increase in people living in the area.
Where I will blame the government, they staff their hospitals like absolute shit and the staff they have they're nickle and diming.